Loud party: Lawmakers allegedly brawl with cops
Police personnel deny report.
ISLAMABAD:
Three legislators allegedly manhandled a police team after they tried to cut short their ‘dinner party’ following complaints by residents late Thursday night.
The lawmakers, however, rebutted the allegations of manhandling the officials while the police went a step ahead and refused that any such incident took place.
Two legislators of the ruling party, Mohammad Raza Hayat Harraj and Najaf Abbas Sial, and a legislator of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement elected on a reserved seat, Sanjay Perwani, have been accused of manhandling a policeman, Sohail, and three others when they tried to stop them from disturbing peace of the neighbourhood following a complaint.
According to sources, a police team reached a house located in the Sector F-10/4 where several legislators and government officials were holding a social gathering where loud music was echoing into the neighbourhood on Thursday night.
The sources added that Sohail and three other officials were manhandled when they asked the organisers to limit their party.
The victims were rushed to a government hospital but officials of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and Polyclinic have apparently no record of any such patients.
Sial, while talking to The Express Tribune, denied the incident saying they were the ones who intervened in a fight between policemen and their guards while they were leaving the house. “I don’t know why the policemen stopped our vehicles but a fight did not take place nor were their uniforms torn,” he said. “I’m not sure if someone was pushed by the guards.”
Sher Ali, a naib muharrar at the Shalimar Police Station, said neither was a policeman hurt nor has a case has been registered against any legislator. “How can police register a case when no incident took place,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2014.
Three legislators allegedly manhandled a police team after they tried to cut short their ‘dinner party’ following complaints by residents late Thursday night.
The lawmakers, however, rebutted the allegations of manhandling the officials while the police went a step ahead and refused that any such incident took place.
Two legislators of the ruling party, Mohammad Raza Hayat Harraj and Najaf Abbas Sial, and a legislator of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement elected on a reserved seat, Sanjay Perwani, have been accused of manhandling a policeman, Sohail, and three others when they tried to stop them from disturbing peace of the neighbourhood following a complaint.
According to sources, a police team reached a house located in the Sector F-10/4 where several legislators and government officials were holding a social gathering where loud music was echoing into the neighbourhood on Thursday night.
The sources added that Sohail and three other officials were manhandled when they asked the organisers to limit their party.
The victims were rushed to a government hospital but officials of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and Polyclinic have apparently no record of any such patients.
Sial, while talking to The Express Tribune, denied the incident saying they were the ones who intervened in a fight between policemen and their guards while they were leaving the house. “I don’t know why the policemen stopped our vehicles but a fight did not take place nor were their uniforms torn,” he said. “I’m not sure if someone was pushed by the guards.”
Sher Ali, a naib muharrar at the Shalimar Police Station, said neither was a policeman hurt nor has a case has been registered against any legislator. “How can police register a case when no incident took place,” he added.
Sources, however, claimed that a ‘katchi report’ was filed but that too was later dropped.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2014.